An ancient, and possibly the first mutant, En Sabah Nur was born in Egypt over 4000 years ago. He was abandoned
in the desert as an infant because of his ugly and malformed visage.

Found by a roving band of raiders known as the Sandstormers, he was adopted by their ruthless leader Baal, who
recognized the potential power he possessed. It was Baal that named the infant En Sabah Nur, the first one. In time
Baal would be proved correct when the young mutant would grow to surpass the other tribesmen in both strength and
intelligence. Others feared him, but En Sabah Nur learned from his adopted father that only the fittest, tested by
hardship, would or should survive. During his rite of manhood, the teen-aged En Sabah Nur killed three armed warriors
bare handed.

This age of Egypt was ruled by Pharaoh Rama-Tut (Kang), who had become
abandoned when his time ship crashed in the dessert. Kang knew of En Sabah Nur's existence in ancient Egypt and
conspired to find him as a child, train the youth to be faithful only to him, and becoming the master of the most
powerful being on the planet. When En Sabah Nur refused to supplicate to Kang, the time traveler attempted to destroy
the mutant but failed, and fled back to the future. En Sabah Nur swore vengeance and plotted the conquest of the world
by weeding out the weak through war and conflict as the global menace known as
Apocalypse.